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I think we're both violently agreeing on that. I'm just saying it's odd that the left and the right can see those two statements in opposite ways even though a neutral interpretation of both leads to the conclusion that you and I both seem to have.

The thing about computer games is that, as with films, there are a small number of people who are vulnerable to such influences, but those same people are likely to seek violence in films or games or other ways regardless.

It seems very reasonable that violence in entertainment could reinforce the violent tendancies of a small set of people, but I imagine that in the absence of said games or films they would find the reinforcement and violence they seek in the news, or in day to day life or wor

It seems very reasonable that violence in entertainment could reinforce the violent tendancies of a small set of people, but I imagine that in the absence of said games or films they would find the reinforcement and violence they seek in the news, or in day to day life or worse still act in a violent manner to fill the gap themselves.

Back in the Good Ol Days, serial killers cited Satan, their dog (possibly speaking for Satan, possibly not), their neighbor's dog, heavy metal or Jodie Foster as their influ

Unfortunately, people have already drawn their conclusions and they search for connections to reinforce them.

I find it hilarious that a bunch of computer geeks with no expertise in psychology, psychiatry or pathology claim to *know* that it's *totally illogical* for there to be any connection whatsoever between repeated exposure to violent video games and violence in humans.

Just because there isn't any direct causal link doesn't mean there's no link at all. Look at porn and violence. It's a slow, warp

Nothing wrong with applying common sense and the basic rules of logic and statistics that every IT freshman learns at (any decent) university.Also I guess this shows the register knows it's audience well when it publishes articles about research backing our wild and crazy amateur conclusions : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/15/video_games_and_aggression/ [theregister.co.uk]

Of course they simply say there is lack of evidence of a causal link, but in the abscence of science - better to apply common sense then pull theories

You've got to be kidding me. 56 hours of a MMORPG over the course of a month by teenagers or older? That study is garbage.

How about hundreds of hours of a truly violent video game played over the course of a year or more by 8-10 year olds?

No one is ever going to risk performing a study like this. It simply can never be proven because no one is willing to take the risk of warping a bunch of prepubescent kids for the sake of a psychology experiment. Can you imagine the consequences? I can, and so can